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Scientists and mathematicians have collaborated to create a huge theory about symmetry. The basic ideas are simple but the advanced parts of the subject are anything but simple.

We can say that a human being displays a kind of symmetry because our left sides are like our right sides. It's as if one side were mirrored in the other. This is bilateral symmetry. Many creatures are similar to us in symmetry. If you were able to see just the left half of a fly then you would have a very good idea what the right side would be like. This is one use of symmetry. Now if you could imagine some much more complicated kind of symmetry then that is what physicists might use to predict the existence of some new kind of subatomic particle. They try to find the pattern and then see what is needed to complete the pattern.

For more about symmetry please see the wikipedia article.

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∙ 13y ago

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